Example sentences of "the number [prep] cases [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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1 | Over the last twelve months , the number of cases transmitted through heterosexual sex has almost doubled . |
2 | It held steady thereafter until 1935 , the year of a devastating malaria epidemic , when the number of cases increased to 1,020 . |
3 | Chronic hepatitis B infection is responsible for some 60 million cases of liver cirrhosis worldwide , more than the number of cases caused by alcohol . |
4 | This involves increasing the number of cases heard in the county courts , thereby maintaining High Court hearings for public law cases , specialist cases and general list cases of importance , complexity and substance . |
5 | To date , the number of cases taken in this fashion are very few and there has been very little guidance from the Courts as to the ambit of the provision . |
6 | They measured the number of cases brought to court by persons who alleged that their cattle had been stolen . |
7 | In spring and summer 1942 , the number of cases brought before the Munich ‘ Special Court ’ as a result of alleged critical remarks made about the regime also increased sharply . |
8 | Their observations were only partially based on the fall in the number of cases brought before the courts . |
9 | This figure is less than half the number of cases reported by one clinic , out of thirty odd , in London for that year . |
10 | A provider , being judged on the length of waiting lists , will simply accept for treatment the number of cases provided for in the contract , quite properly refusing further cases unless reimbursed on a cost-per-case basis . |
11 | Although not a new phenomenon abroad , occurrences of listeria were relatively rare in Britain until 1989 when the number of cases rose to an estimated 800 , one third of which were pregnant women . |
12 | The number of ‘ true cases of cattle theft ’ , that is the number of cases known to the authorities less those in which it was determined that no crime had been committed , declined in the Southern and Western Provinces from 1,160 in 1908 to 394 in 1914 . |
13 | But he adds , ‘ there is an increase in the number of cases coming to our attention ’ . |